Comedian Kathleen Madigan loves Netflix. Not only is the streaming service currently showcasing two of her comedy specials, “Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus” and “Kathleen Madigan: Madigan Again,” but it has provided her with endless hours of bingeing entertainment.

“I think we can all judge what we’re going to end up being by what you do with your Halloween candy,” she said during a recent phone interview, ahead of bringing her tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on Friday, Sept. 14, and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15.

“I ate all of my candy within 24 hours and one of my sisters would spread it out and save some,” she continued. “She’d have candy until December. I feel like I behave the same way with my candy as I do with Netflix. I can’t stop. My mom was saying, ‘If you have any addictive tendencies, this is a sinkhole that you may lose friends, family and your job over.’ I will wake up so tired because I couldn’t stop and I just kept saying ‘One more episode, one more episode.’ I do love it, but I have to set rules and abide by them in my own world, which is very difficult to do.”

Comedian Kathleen Madigan will bring her Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Friday, Sept. 14 and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15. (Photo by Rick Diamond, Getty Images)

Comedian Kathleen Madigan will bring her Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Friday, Sept. 14 and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15. (Photo by Reinhold Matay, Associated Press)

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Comedian Kathleen Madigan will bring her Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Friday, Sept. 14 and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15. (Photo by Rick Diamond, Getty Images)

Comedian Kathleen Madigan will bring her Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Friday, Sept. 14 and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15. (Photo by Bryan Steffy, Getty Images)

Comedian Kathleen Madigan will bring her Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Friday, Sept. 14 and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15. (Photo by Luzena Adams)

Comedian Kathleen Madigan will bring her Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour to the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Friday, Sept. 14 and City National Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, Sept. 15. (Photo by Bryan Steffy, Getty Images)

Madigan also loves Netflix because of its hands-off approach to dealing with the comedians and the specials they upload to their service. Instead of having to present a network with a word-for-word transcript of her act that needs to be processed through the network’s crew of lawyers, she can simply do her thing, send in her content and get paid for it.

There are currently dozens of comedy specials available on Netflix from comedians such as Bill Burr, Iliza Shlesinger, Jim Jefferies, Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Hannah Gadsby, Hasan Minhaj, Chelsea Peretti and more. It has been a great outlet for comedy, Madigan insists, as it has been a good way to make new fans and for her to catch up on comedy herself.

“It has really opened up a whole new world,” she said. “I’m a comedy fan and before, unless I knew when someone’s special was on, it was always random like, ‘Oh look, Garry Shandling is on HBO.’ But now, I can go to Netflix and I go ‘Oh look, Maria Bamford has a new special’ or ‘Hey, it’s Jim Gaffigan.’ I can now watch the specials when I want, like on planes, which is awesome.”

Since the majority of her life is comedy, Madigan tends to go mostly dramatic and dark with her Netflix selections. It has also given her some playful fodder for interesting debates with friends as she’s binged on both “Narcos” and “El Chapo.”

“People who have seen both, we get into these interesting conversations like ‘Yeah, but Pablo did have a good time charlie vibe’ and ‘El Chapo, he was never a good time, he was mean 24/7’,” she said with a laugh.

Madigan can also be seen on an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” on Netflix. She got picked up by Seinfeld in a fancy car and was driven around L.A. before hitting up a swanky coffee shop to talk about life and stand-up.

“Because I’ve known him forever it’s just Jerry to me,” she said. “I forget that he’s on a different level. Two of my BFFs for going out golfing are Lewis Black and Ron White, and they’re famous, but Jerry is at that Robin Williams level to where you go out anywhere, it turns into this thing that you realize you’re with a star — not a famous comedian, a star.”

Madigan isn’t into fancy cars. She drives a 2007 Mercury Mariner with 40,000 miles on it and though White makes fun of her for driving such a dated vehicle when she makes a decent living, she’s not giving up her “old lady car.” If she had a show like Seinfeld’s, she’d call it “Comedians on Clydesdales Getting Bud Light.”

“The stronger the coffee is, the fancier it is, the less I’m going to like it,” she said. “I really love Clydesdales and I really, really want to ride on one so that would be my show and we’d be outside doing stuff.”

Madigan is active on Twitter because she likes the written exchange of ideas, but compares the social media site to “an Irish bar fight.” She is on Instagram, but mostly so she can follow beagle_boo, an account that just posts photos of beagles and sometimes other breeds of dogs.

“The thing I find truly appalling, and this especially goes for Facebook because I really don’t like it and I think Mark Zuckerberg is a big liar, is that you don’t have to prove who you are,” she said. “It’s that anonymity that breeds bravado because some things that are said, especially on Twitter, no one would ever have the guts in real life to walk up to a person and say. They just wouldn’t and I know that from being on the planet for 50 years. As a comedian, I have to be me, so I’m making myself vulnerable, but no one else is. They say there’s no solution, but sure there is. Make everyone pay one cent and put down a credit card and then you have to prove who you are. You need to take responsibility for what you are saying.”

Politics has certainly become a polarizing issue, even in stand-up comedy. Madigan said comics can still address hot topic issues, but it’s all about the approach.

“You have to find a different perspective,” she said. “You can’t just do ‘I hate Trump’ or ‘I love Trump.’ My perspective, and remember, I’m 52, which is important in this equation, is that I’m tired of being governed by old people. That’s the route I’m going. And this isn’t a hacky, smacky, let’s meet in the middle thing, I firmly believe that when these people are in their jobs too long it starts to be about ‘Well, I hate that guy’ or ‘That’s my best friend!’ One of the positives is that they have the skills, but it becomes about their (messed) up relationships. Orrin Hatch is 84 years old and he’s thinking about running again. No paw-paw, you’re going home. You took imaginary glasses off of your face and put them on your head. You’re out. Supreme Court justices can’t stay awake during the State of the Union.”

Madigan mixes her stance with jokes about her parents, who are both 78 years old, so she knows a thing or two about hanging out with the late-70s crowd.

“They have really good hours, not whole days and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. they are on fire,” she said. “I do jokes about my parents to emphasize that aging happens to everybody and it’s a natural thing and there’s no way I believe it’s not happening to those people, too. I don’t think they should be governing us. I don’t care if they have fun jobs. If Mitch McConnell wants to be a golf marshal, great! That’s what he should be doing. It’s ludicrous. I think he’s 76 and Joe Biden is thinking about running and he’s 75 and the election isn’t for two more years. It’s time to hand it to the people in their 40s and 50s. I’d say people ages 30-70, but when you’re 85? No. It’s ridiculous.”

Kelli Skye Fadroski lives for entertainment. She’s worked at The Orange County Register since 2006 and has covered all things music, stand-up comedy, horror and more. When she’s not out reviewing a concert or interviewing some random famous person, she’s catching up on episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' somewhere sampling craft beer, enjoying Taco Tuesday or yelling at the contestants through the TV on 'Celebrity Name Game' for not knowing basic pop culture trivia. She’s also a diehard Detroit Lions fan.